Quote: all things involve number and number is that which is composed of units

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Mohammed said, Praise God the creator who has bestowed upon man the power to discover the significance of numbers. Indeed, reflecting that all things which men need require computation, I discovered that all things involve number and I discovered that number is nothing other than that which is composed of units. Unity therefore is implied in every number. Moreover I discovered all numbers to be so arranged that they proceed from unity up to ten. The number ten is treated in the same manner as the unit, and for this reason doubled and tripled just as in the case of unity. Out of its duplication arises 20, and from its triplication 30. And so multiplying the number ten you arrive at one-hundred. ... In this way multiplying the number one-thousand according to the various denominations of numbers you come even to the investigation of number to infinity.   Google-1   Google-2

Published before 1923

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Quote: number proceeds from unity to ten to 30 to 100 and on to infinity

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